Editorial: 72 years ago today: Wedding story misses the point

Each Monday, we turn to a day in the newspaper's history for a look at what the Editorial Board found worthy of comment. We will preserve the punctuation and capitalization of the original editorial column. Here is what we wrote on Dec. 3, 1940:

Dakota wedding

Perhaps the Record-Herald and other newspapers that try to make their news stories concise are making a mistake. Perhaps a few remarks not strictly relevant to the event contained in the news article might help to "pep up" the story a little. At any rate, such procedure makes interesting reading.

This department ran across an account of a Dakota wedding taken from the Mobridge, South Dakota, Tribune. We think it is worth passing on to the Record-Herald readers. The news article follows:

"Miss Jennie Jones and Bob Henry were married at the Jones mansion last night. The bride is the daughter of Constable Jones who has made a good officer and will undoubtedly be re-elected this spring. He offers a fine horse for sale in another column of this issue. The groom runs a grocery store on Main street and is a steady patron of our advertising columns. He has a good line of bargains in his ad this week. All summer he paid two cents more for butter than any other store in town. They were married by Reverend Josiah Butterworth, who last week called at this office and gave us a nice order for handbills. He is also going to give some time to the real estate business and will write fire insurance. So say the business cards we recently printed for him. Jennie and Bob left on the 10 o'clock train for Milwaukee to visit the bride's uncle who, we understand, has lots of money."

The story is, to say the least, unique.

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Editorial: 72 years ago today: Wedding story misses the point

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